SS #174: Machine Culture
Today's episode is a conversation about machine culture a la Paul Kingsnorth's book Against the Machine , but we managed to tie it to govern...
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Scholé Sisters is the podcast for the classical homeschooling mama who seeks to learn and grow while she’s helping her children learn and grow. Scholé Sisters is a casual conversation about...
Today's episode is a conversation about machine culture a la Paul Kingsnorth's book Against the Machine , but we managed to tie it to govern...
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This is the fall episode recorded each year at the retreat. As usual, the Scholé Sisters apologize for the decline in sound quality. They fe...
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Charlotte Mason says our young adult daughters ought to develop their opinions rather than being tossed around by circumstance or culture. O...
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Today's episode is on unit studies and why Charlotte Mason disapproved of them so much. You're going to love this conversation! *** Did you...
It has come to our attention that while we discuss and refer to the Scholé Sisters 5x5 Reading Challenge regularly, we've never actually don...
Today's episode is our annual Christmas episode. We begin by revisiting the theme of our very first Christmas episode, Don't Be the White Wi...

Today's episode is the second in our four part series on habits and training. Last time, Mystie, Abby, and Brandy talked about physical trai...

Our very special guest today is Jami Marstall. Jami has been homeschooling with Charlotte Mason's principles, primarily following AmblesideO...

Today's episode is the annual episode we recorded at the retreat when we were together in real life, which means we have to apologize to you...

Today's conversation is the first in a four-part series covering Charlotte Mason's chapters from School Education on training children physi...

Our guest today is Chad Vegas. Chad is the founding pastor of Sovereign Grace Church in Bakersfield, CA, where he has served since 2006. Cha...

Today's conversation is all about curriculum. What does it mean to say that curriculum can be a crutch? Is that a bad thing? What does a hea...

Our guest today is Kara Hughes. Kara is a Christian homeschooling mama to 5 children – a toddler, and then a 4th grader, 5th grader, 7th gra...

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